An extremely non-comprehensive list of zine stuff I think is interesting/credible/helpful! You can let me know about any dead links or stuff to consider adding at lee@sheerspite.ca.
zine resources
My number-one recommendation for anyone wanting to get into, or deeper into zines, is always the ZCMAG resource page, which is a fantastic collection of tools, templates, fonts, graphics, archives, and more.
zine design & layout
- Book design resources, from the Book Designers’ Notebook newsletter
- Carley Law‘s collection of resources on zines & DIY Publishing
- DIY book design resources, from Book Design Made Simple
- Template for making a one-page zine, from Shay Mirk, with Spanish and Italian translations
- Ten Tips For First Time Zinesters, from Spill the Zines
- Typography resources for free to use beautiful fonts, from radical web design
- Zine Accessibility and Low Vision, from Veronica With Four Eyes
- Zine formats and templates from Salem State
- Zine Idea Generator, from ZCMAG
listings of zine fests, events, & distros:
- A guide on where to sell your zines, from r/zines
- Book and zine fairs from Printed Matter (definitely out of date, includes a zine fair I organized once many years ago)
- Festivals & Events, from Nice Zines
- Nonmachinable Guide to Zine Distributors (not maintained unfortunately)
- Some Upcoming Zine-Related Events & Calls for Submissions, by Sylvia Nowak for the Toronto Zine Library
- A list of anarchist, artist, illustration, indie, letterpress, LGBTQ, photography, small press, wayzgoose and zine UK book fairs, from the Small Press Fair
- Zine Fair Webring, “a webring for all online fairs that focus on comics and/or zine culture that take place entirely or at least primarily on the internet.”
- Canadian/US based Art/Zine/Craft Market Masterlist: from cevincy (Jayden Charles), submit your experiences with art/zine/craft fairs, including their table fees and whether you broke even or made money, and see all the responses compiled in this spreadsheet!
- May the Apocalypse Find us Photocopying: 200 Comic, art and zine fests for 2025, by Sara Harvey-Patrick
getting zines printed:
- Free zine printing for those unable to print their own, from ZCMAG
- Printer Resources for Independent Art Publishers: a list of printers recommended by artist book publishers, compiled by Ooga Booga
- Zine printers and companies, from Nice Zines
advice for tabling at zine fairs:
- Guide to Tabling at a ‘Zine Festival, from Quail Bell Magazine
- Tabler Resources, from East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest
- Tips & Tricks for tabling success, from the Olympia Zine Fair
advice for organizing zine fairs:
- Accessibility Checklist for Comic Art & Zine Fairs, from the Comics Cultural Impact Collective (UK)
- do or diy “exists to support DIY spaces, organizers, musicians, performers, writers, activists, and other like-minded folks, [with] resources for anyone interested in the DIY ethos, as well as maintains a catalog of event spaces and organizers from around the world.”
miscellaenous:
- Community resource list from Wasted Ink Zine Distro
- The Education Book, from Booklyn: lesson plans on zine/bookmaking formats
- Everything you need to make a zine, from Zines & Things
- How to start a zine distro, from The Distroist International
- How To Start Growing An Audience With Your Zines, from Zines & Things
zines that are free to read and print
- 1312 Press, “anarchist zine distro out of Occupied Coastal Salish Territories. Anti-Colonial, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Police.”
- 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists, from Spencer Sunshine
- free anarchist zines from Crimethinc, including “Ahead of Another Summer of Climate Disasters, Let’s Talk about Real Solutions,” and “The Sunbird: How to Start an Announcements-Only Thread on Signal—and How Organizers in Austin Used One to Coordinate Solidarity with Palestine”
- abolition notes zine library, on “revolutionary theory, radical history, + political education materials for the people”
- Covid is a Labor Issue, by Rimona Eskayo
- COVID Zine Library (collected by Sweetfern)
- Disability Justice: An Audit Tool, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and envisioned by Stacey Park Milbern and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, aimed at helping Black, Indigenous and POC-led organizations (that are not primarily focused around disability) examine where they’re at in practicing disability justice, and where they want to learn and grow.
- Disability Zine Project, an initiative by Wellington Zinefest which encourages disabled creatives to make zines exploring their lived experience of disability.
- Digital Zine Library, from East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest
- Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism, hosted on It’s Going Down
- GEOZONe, “an archive of mischief-making zines and radical geographic print ephemera”
- Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre‘s free zines on DIY art and activism
- littlemouse.fun, zines on DIY HRT, anarchism, gender, and DBT
- Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, zines & other resources on disaster preparedness and relief
- No Trace Project, zines and other resources “to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught.”
- One Million Experiments, “exploring snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.”
- An Ordinary Riot: Skills to Support Punks in Radical Interventions to Violence and Abuse
- Papercut zine library
- Pride and Rage by Sour Queer Press: “In an empire leaving disabled and sick people for dead, why are so many queers following suit [around COVID] rather than rebelling against such structural neglect? Is the phrase We Keep Us Safe only a slogan with no meaning behind it?”
- Print at Home Zine Library, from ZCMAG
- Project Nia zine library, centred around ending youth incarceration
- Quarantine Public Library
- Safe & Accurate Information on Self-Managed Abortion (from the WHO), from Seeing Red Nebraska
- Sherwood Forest Virtual Zine Library
- Sick of It! zines, “a project to amplify the voices of incarcerated disabled people, and provide education about the ways disabled liberation and a world free of cages are intertwined.”
- small science collective, zines on scientific topics with an ethos that “science is everyone’s to share”
- Sprout Distro, ” an anarchist zine distro. We feature 100s of zines on topics ranging from direct action to theory. Our main focus is sharing practical skills with an eye towards anarchy.”
- Suicide Intervention (for Weirdos, Freaks, & Queers), by Carly Boyce
- Tender Warrior
- Unknowable: Against an Indigenous Anarchist Theory, from Klee Benally, Ya’iishjááshch’ilí, on Indigenous Action
- What’s Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself, by Hazel Newlevant
- Zine Bakery, a collection of zines “at the intersections of culture, tech, and justice”
- Zine and Sticker Library, from the Collective of Anarchist Writers
- Zinester Directory